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\nI call it a 2 1\/2 D machine. The working dimensions are approximately 12″x15″x2.5″ (X,Y,Z). It’s considered to be an engraving machine and I’ve made some nice name tags for my roses.<\/p>\n
In the past year, besides working on the truck and my rose gardens, I’ve been writing a program, cncDraw, to create G-code to drive my CNC milling machine.
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\nI call it a 2 1\/2 D machine. The working dimensions are approximately 12″x15″x2.5″ (X,Y,Z). It’s considered to be an engraving machine and I’ve made some nice name tags for my roses.<\/p>\n
Screen shot of my program.![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.bobsown.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/cncDraw-1-512x438.png\")
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The first thing I designed was an outhouse, because the 4 walls can be cut in one piece.\u00a0 The black lines are V-grooves. Red lines are cut through and the green areas are slots cut with an end mill.<\/p>\n
Currently I’m working on a model of my house.\u00a0 Originally I used a scale factor of 24:1, but that turned out to be huge.\u00a0 The trains are nominally 22.5:1.\u00a0 The final version uses a scale of 32:1.\u00a0 This may be a bit small, but it will fit inside some of the loops in my garden railroad.<\/p>\n
The structures I had were built from plastic kits.\u00a0 When I took them in for a hurricane, they mostly fell apart.\u00a0 Florida sun and humidity are not kind to the glues that come with kits.<\/p>\n
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Here some views of the house front and back.<\/p>\n
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OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA<\/p><\/div>\n
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OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA<\/p><\/div>\n
The house will be painted light green with white trim.\u00a0 The windows will be glazed with 1\/8″ Lexan, making them hurricane proof.\u00a0 The back area will be screened as it was when I bought the house.<\/p>\n
The roof and base will be concrete.\u00a0 See the Stoneworks<\/a> web site.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" In the past year, besides working on the truck and my rose gardens, I’ve been writing a program, cncDraw, to create G-code to drive my CNC milling machine. I call it a 2 1\/2 D machine. The working dimensions are … Continue reading